. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . ALSINACEAE. Vol. II 2. Moehringia macrophylla ( Hook.) Torr. Large-leaved ^loehringia or Sandwort. Fig. 1792. yfl'yUa Hook. Fl. Bor, acrofhyUa Torr. Bot. \m. i: 102. pi. 37. Wilkes' Exp. 246. Moehringia 1874. Stems decumbent, puberulent, usually branched, 6'- 15'long. Leaves lanceolate, acute or acuminate (rarely obtiisish) at the apex, narrowed at the base, i'-3' long, 2&qu
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . ALSINACEAE. Vol. II 2. Moehringia macrophylla ( Hook.) Torr. Large-leaved ^loehringia or Sandwort. Fig. 1792. yfl'yUa Hook. Fl. Bor, acrofhyUa Torr. Bot. \m. i: 102. pi. 37. Wilkes' Exp. 246. Moehringia 1874. Stems decumbent, puberulent, usually branched, 6'- 15'long. Leaves lanceolate, acute or acuminate (rarely obtiisish) at the apex, narrowed at the base, i'-3' long, 2"-5" wide; cymes terminal or becoming axillary by the elongation of the stem, i-5-flo\vered; flowers about 3" broad; sepals lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, long- acuminate, longer than the small petals; capsule rather shorter than the calyx, 3-valved, the valves 2-cleft. M« On shores and banks /* Superior, Idaho and Br 7. HONKENYA Ehrh. Beitr. 2: 180. 1788. [Ammodeni.\ J. G. Gmel. Fl. Sib. 4: 160. Hyponym. 1769.] Perennial fleshy maritime herbs, with ovate obovate oblong or oblanceolate leaves, and rather small flowers, solitary in the axils and in the forks of the stem or branches. Sepals 5 (rarely 4). Petals the same number, entire. Stamens 8 or 10. Disk prominent, 8-io-lobed, glandular. Styles 3-5. Capsule subglobose, fleshy, 3-5-valved when mature, the valve entire. Seeds numerous, obovate, not strophiolate. [In honor of Gerhart August Honckeny, German botanist, 1724-1805.] Two species, the following of sea beaches throughout the north temperate zone, the other of the coasts of northwestern America and northeastern Asia. Type species: Hoiikeiiya peploides (L.) Ehrh. I. Honkenya peploides (L.) Ehrli. Sea-beach Sandwort. Fig. 1793. Arenaria peploides L. Sp. PI. 4-'3. mi- Honkenya peploides Ehrh. Beitr. 2: 181. 17S8. Ammodenia peploides Rupr. Beitr. Pfl. Russ. Reich. 2: 25. 1845. Perennial from long rootstocks, glabrous, fleshy throughout, stems stout, tufted, sim
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